St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-30
DAKOTA Dors AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of anterost TO the PeO-
pie of the Great Territory.


The editor of the Mitchell Republican. who
held one of the territorial positions in Ord
way days, is not as well satisfied with the
work of the legislature as he would have
been had court been removed there from
Yankton. He insists that the appropriations
| Tor public institutions are extravagant, and,
with the exception of the Yankton asylum
and Sioux Falls peniUentiary very greatly in
excess Of requirements. He says: Take the
jamestown asylum, 1928, 900 against $5S,OOO
in 1885: Bismarck penitentiary, $73,22O
against $36,42S two years ago-a sum suffi-
cient, as Gov. Pierce remarked to Inc, to
board its inmates during the next two years
at the Ryan hotel In st. Paul; Br9okings col
lege, $41,S96 against $25,50O in 1885; school
of mines, $4,000 against $500; Spearish
normal school, $21, 800 against 81, ZOO; and so
on to the end of the list.
AS the new militia bill gives the governor
discretion to accept Two cavalry companies,
Dunseith, in the Turtle mountains, proposes
to organize one with Is or 100 members. 1t
is understood that Adjt. Gen. Tyner is
strongly in favor of it, and petition to tn e
governor is being signed. As it is border
and frontier county, it is evidently proper
region for such company.
Judge Platt, a leading farmer IL Ransom
county, says a number of his neighbors are
giving up growing hogs on account of the
low prices they have obtained, and the judge
says he will now go into the business. He
believes the prices will be better and that
they will pay we'll anyway. Although corn is
not used there hogs do finely, and the feed
costs little.
With the experience lately had in McCook
county, the Moptrose Herald thinks that
every farmer would do well to keep q few
irrepressible bull dogs to receive travelling
agents for live stock insurance companies
insurance companies generally. lightning-r rod
men and oats peddlers. The local agents, it
thinks. can meet all the wants.
Mr. HuohaS who Uenerallv lyuowO in
North Dakota as the ''Bard of Arvila,'' as
result of the long legal contest with his part
ner, ID. Fl. Hersey, of Saltwater, surrendered
all possession of the valuable property at
Arvilla, but proposes to carry the case to the
United States supreme court. Both parties
are widely known.
In each of the three counties in which
Judge Spencer, who succeeds udge Church.
has appointed terms of court, there is MUIR
der trial on the docket These are Kings
bury, March 20; Day, at Webster, April 5, aud
Beadle, at Huron. April IL. 1t will not be the
most pleasant introduction for the judge to
the Dakota practice.
AS the legislature passed high license law
with similar figures to that of Minnesota q good
deal of interest is taken in that case reported
In Dakota county, where each Saloonkeeper on
paying $500 license was paid $500 as a special
policeman, with no duties to perform. If the
scheme will work there it may also in Da-
kota
Mrs. J. P. Crennon, of Yankton, sister-n-
law of ex-Secretary Teller, as there was
good deal of scarlet fever there, took her
baby and went to Ohio on q visit to avoid the
disease. but the mother took the disease and
died in Ohio. She was also O sister to
Wheelock, of the Mitchell Republican.
Ten per cent. of the counties in Dakota
now nave ladies as county superintendent of
schools, and they average better than the
men in point of ability and application to
Is hQt inn
will soon be generally conceded to ladies, in
Dakota.
Two of the twenty-four township treasurers
in Mlnnehaha county have recently defaulted
one for $1,000 and the other for ST 90. Such
defaults are quite numerous in the territory.
1t is believed there is some defect in the Or
carnations or laws that allow them.
Sioux Falls proposes to organize board of
trade. The place is jubilant over the COM
mencement of work on the Manitoba extern
sion to that place. A direct connection with
Duluth is all that is much cared for at
present.
Some farmers in Mclean county, north OF
Bismarck, have sowed wheat, but there is
much complaint that they are not getting the
seed from the Northern Pacific they expected,
and there is not enough there for seed.
Company G., of the Second regiment, D. w.
g., OF Bookings, has reorganized, with fifty
six members, for another Two year s. service.
1t is one of the largest and best drilled COM
panies in the regiment.
Capt. Willard. stock Inspector, in a two
days ride in the cattle regions of the Black
Hills, saw some 5000 head and but four dead
animals. He says the losses are much less
| than reported.
1t is said that the Dakota militia Will be
represented at Washington at the May en-
campment. even if the governor Is opposed
| to paying any of the expenses.
Larimore is looking for q boom this season,
growing out of the oper atoms of the Manitoba
in connection with the Montana extension